Quotes About Empathy

I am connected to everyone and everything.

Grab a plate and throw it on the ground. Okay done. Did it break? Yes. Now say sorry to it. Sorry. Did it go back to the way it was before? No. Do you understand?

can begin tending to the soft spots of your own tender heart, causing a bittersweet breakthrough in your ability to love yourself even when someone else refuses to. When you use the sheer force of your sorrow to crack open your heart, it promises to drop you down into a deeper capacity for compassion and care for all living beings. You become initiated into your own humanity

Effective grieving, however, turns the love you've been giving another toward yourself.

What we found is that when people [are] excluded, you see activity in…the neural regions [of the brain] that are also involved in the distressing component of pain, or what sometimes people call the 'suffering component' of pain.

Social rejection—or the feeling of not belonging, of being less than others, unwanted, and an outcast—activates the same brain regions as physical pain.

Love exists to the extent that you give it away.

To give up having to be right, having to prove someone else wrong, having to have the last word, having to be understood—that is the mark of a person who is ready to create a loving relationship that can last and flourish over time.

leaving each other, and all those impacted by our separation, whole, healthy, and complete rather than wounded, walled off, and significantly broken by the experience.

When they have reached their term, take them back in kindness, or part from them in kindness. KORAN

When Andrew extended himself to meet Claudia's needs, she did not back up or push him away. She

We are never lonely because we have lost contact with others. We are lonely because we have lost contact with ourselves.

Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

He) had not realized how much he needed this sweet, friendly sound. How much he needed someone to settle in next to him. He didn't know that he needed to not be so solitary until at last he wasn't. So many needs in one old dog.

There's something to be said for visibility, something about being easier to love.

THERE IS NOTHING lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

do with being a doormat or a second-class citizen, or even a slave of any kind. Instead, it seems to point to what most of Jesus' teaching points to: be kind to one another, love one another, be of service to one another, and treat others the way you want to be treated.

Go out into the world and do well; but more importantly—go out into the world and do good.

When we live in grace, it becomes clear that every life is precious and deserving of our protection, our love, and our relationship.

It's clear that love is the container in which broken hearts are rebuilt.

When we open our hearts to each other we allow grace to enter. It is as simple as that. And suffering--events that break open the heart--can become the refiner's fire that leaves us fully open to the truth about love and compassion.

There is a language every sister knows, a language tender beyond words and rarely spoken. It runs like a string between two hearts, and we only pluck that string in times of trouble. This night [...] we speak as sisters.

It matters to students that teachers like being in their company.

Él no debe sentirse obligado a brindarme más amabilidad de la que desea. Si no la ofrece por su propia voluntad, no significa nada.